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2017 年硕士研究生招生考试试题
科目代码及名称: 621 英语基础 适用专业：英语语言文学
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A 卷
Part One Blank-filling (20 分)
For each blank in the following passage you are requested to fill in only ONE word.
Yale is building on faculty diversity and excellence through $50 million initiative
Provost Ben Polak and Professor Richard Bribiescas, deputy provost for faculty development
and diversity, have updated the faculty on Yale’s ongoing $50 million initiative to build on the
excellence and diversity of the faculty (1) the university.
The Provost’s Faculty Development Fund, which was announced last fall, provides up to half
the salary for three years to support the appointment of faculty (2) enrich diversity or contribute
on another dimension of strategic importance (3) Yale. In its inaugural year, the initiative
committed resources to support 26 ladder faculty.
“We have been impressed by the enthusiastic participation in the initiative across the schools
and departments,” Polak and Bribiescas wrote in a Sept. 7 email to the faculty. “In the first year,
every school that (4) a request for funding received support, including the Faculty of Arts &
Sciences and the Schools of Divinity, Drama, Engineering & Applied Science, Forestry &
Environmental Studies, Law, Medicine, Music, Nursing, and Public Health.”
President Peter Salovey said, “I am delighted that the initiative is off to a good start — but
there is more (5) to be done. We must recruit and retain the (6) faculty, and ensure that all of
them feel welcome and valued.”
A number of Yale’s deans said the initiative had contributed significantly to their (7) to
recruit outstanding faculty to the University this year.
“This initiative has allowed departments to think broadly and creatively about faculty
excellence and has allowed us to (8) a number of spectacular scholars and teachers who might
otherwise have been beyond our (9) to attract,” said Dean Tamar Gendler of the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences.
“Yale's initiative is important not only for recruiting, but also for developing our own faculty
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